HANDLING AND SHIPPING FRESH CHERRIES AND PRUNES. 



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per cent of decay, as compared with 5.2 per cent in the same fruit 

 delayed two days before loading. The results in the lots held for 

 10 days are equally striking, there being 13.5 per cent of decay in 

 the immediate and 25.4 per cent in the delayed shipments on with- 

 drawal from the car, with 19.7 per cent in the immediate and 40.2 

 per cent in the delayed shipments after a market holding period of 

 2 days. On arrival, the delayed fruit invariably showed about 

 twice the decay found in the fruit immediately packed and loaded. 



IMMEDIATE LOADING 



PER CENT DECAY 



20 20 IS lO 6 O 



DAYS IN ICED 



ON WITHDRAWAL 

 TWO DAYS LATER 



DAYS IN ICED 



ON WITHDRAWAL 

 TWO DAYS LATER 



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ON WITHDRAWAL 

 TWO DAYS LATER 



DELAYED 2 DAYS BEFORE LOADING 



PE& CEA/T DECAY 



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Fig. 3. — Diagram illustrating the percentages of decay in commercially handled nonpre- 

 cooled cherries loaded immediately and those delayed two days in the warehouse before 

 loading, Salem, Oreg., 1911. 



Table III. — Decay in commercially handled nonprecooled cherries immediately 

 loaded and in those delayed two days in the ivarehouse before loading, Wil- 

 lamette Valley, season of 1911. 1 



Time in iced car. 



Time factors and extent of decay 

 (percent). 



On withdrawal. 



Imme- 

 diate. 



Delayed. 



Two days after 

 withdrawal. 



Imme- 

 diate. 



Delayed. 



5 days.. 

 10 days. 

 15 days. 



3.2 

 13.5 

 15.4 



5.2 



25.4 

 29.8 



8.1 



19.7 

 24.4 



12.5 

 40.2 

 32.4 



1 Slight inconsistencies and apparent discrepancies occur in this table and in some others. These, how- 

 ever, are easily accounted for when it is taken into consideration that it was impossible to use the same lots 

 of fruit for more than one inspection. While the aggregate of fruit used in these inspections was large, the 

 quantity of fruit in each experiment was necessarily limited, especially the fruit used for each inspection. 

 The rather high development of decay in some portion of a crate, either on account of accidental injuries in 

 handling or of decay resulting from brown-rot, is primarily responsible for most of these apparent discrep- 

 ancies. 



The results shown in this table serve to emphasize the desirability 

 and the necessity of getting the fruit as quickly as possible into cooler 

 temperatures or into the refrigerator car, or, where it is shipped 

 without refrigeration, of forwarding it to the carrier or transporta- 

 tion company with the least possible delay. Holding the fruit for 



